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Assessment and Evaluation

Beyond Grades: Empowering Student Learning Through Self-Assessment

What if the problem isn’t just how students respond to feedback, but how we deliver it? What if, instead of handing out scores, we gave students the opportunity—and the space—to reflect on their learning?
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Classroom Perspectives

Breaking the Rules: How Giving Students More Choice Transformed My Teaching

When I told my fifth-grade class that they were old enough to take charge of their own learning, something unexpected happened.
New Teachers

From Crafts to Curriculum: Why Playful Learning Isn’t Just for Kids

Play is widely acknowledged as essential to children’s learning; but does it have a role for the future teachers who are learning to guide those children as well?
Classroom Perspectives

Flipping the Script: Using Comics and Creative Play to Boost ESL Confidence

On paper, the students I was teaching had a solid grasp of grammar, vocabulary, and reading comprehension. Yet, when it came to speaking, they froze.
Careers and Guidance

Making High School More Relevant: A Life Skills Approach

The integration of practical, relevant life skills into the curriculum not only improves engagement, but also increases emotional well-being and real-world readiness.
Careers and Guidance

In 2026, Career Readiness Can’t Be Someone Else’s Job

When many students graduate, they cross the stage with a diploma in hand and a question they’re not prepared to answer: What comes next?
Education News

New Study Addressing Teacher Departures Probes Causes and Possible Solutions

Many have lamented the growing teacher shortages across our nation, and for good reason. It is estimated that there are currently more than 49,000 vacancies across the U.S.
Education News

Protecting Adolescents from the Risks of Social Media: Is a Ban the Solution?

With parents and teachers struggling to monitor how teens interact with social media, the pressure is increasing on governments to act. But is an age ban the best approach?
Classroom Perspectives

National Mathematics Day: A Joyful Celebration of Numbers and Numeracy

Every year on December 22nd, India celebrates National Mathematics Day. This day has become an opportunity for schools across the country to spark curiosity, reduce fear, and make math an enjoyable subject for students.
Classroom Perspectives

Scripted, Not Silenced: Finding Freedom Within the Frame

We don’t have to choose between structure and creativity. The best teaching lives in the in-between, where we follow a script, but we fill it with our stories, our students’ voices, and our classroom rhythms.

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Assessment and Evaluation

As Temperatures Rise, Math Scores Drop

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The effect of heat waves on schools has become an urgent issue, with news stories on schools closing due to extreme heat becoming more and more common.
Book Lists

Mindset Matters: 4 Metaphors to Shift Your Thinking About ADHD

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Later this month, my book, “An Educator’s Guide to ADHD,” will be released into the world. Structured in two parts, the book invites educators to explore how they can better understand and support students with ADHD.
Education News

Kid Spark Education Launches Transformative Early Childhood STEM and Literacy Program

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New hands-on program helps young learners build curiosity, confidence, and foundational STEM and literacy skills.
Education News

Engaging Every Learner: How This Free Tool Can Transform Classroom and Home Learning

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Random Wheel Spin is a fully customizable wheel of names spinner with additional activities that can be added beneath each name. This tool offers a lightweight but powerful solution to the ever-present problem of student engagement.
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Newton’s Grove School Student-Led Initiative Supporting the Homeless Launches This December

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Through the second annual Bites of Kindness initiative, two sisters are once again taking action to spread kindness and make a meaningful difference in their community.

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Classroom Perspectives

Morbid Fascination in the Classroom: Engaging or Inappropriate?

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Students often display a morbid curiosity that I feel I cannot ignore, but can I lean into it? Can I use this fascination in a way that engages students, but also humanizes them?

The Classroom Economy: Teaching Fourth Graders About Inflation

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Over the years, I’ve found one of the best ways to help kids understand how an economy works is to have them take an active role in managing their own money.

How to Show Students You Respect Them

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You see, here’s the thing that some of us – teachers and parents alike – don’t really take time to stop and think about: kids’ feelings have value too. And they all have their own needs and wants at any given time.

The Trials and Tribulations of Substitute Teaching

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Many substitute teachers like me can teach a different grade every single day, from K–12. It can be challenging, to say the least.

A Seat at the Table: Equality in the Classroom

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We may believe we are creating inclusive, “multicultural” teaching environments, all while being completely unaware of the systemic racism that still impacts our students.

The Language of Empowerment: Engaging ELL Students with the Charter

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By engaging critically with the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, newcomer students develop more than just a broader vocabulary or sharper analysis skills.

6 Steps for Remembering Students’ Names in Less than a Week

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Over the years, I’ve developed the following steps to help myself remember the names of my students. These tips can be used by any type of teacher at any grade level.

How Cooperative Learning Made Me A Better Teacher

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Let’s begin with the realization that what we all inherently understand is indeed true: kids are different today than they were when we were younger. You hear this stated by colleagues and, if you’re like me, from your own mouth quite frequently. The fact is, they are.

Shakespearean Teaching Strategies: Bringing Wisdom into the Classroom

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I have gleaned three wise teachings from King Lear's fool and each one informs my practice in the classroom more and more each day.
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Reading Lists

15 New and Upcoming Books for Student Activists

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To help you inspire your students to become agents of change, we’ve gathered these books that focus on different forms of activism.
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10 Books That Tackle Bullying

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Share these books with your students to spark meaningful conversations about bullying and empower them to stand up for themselves and others.
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15 Books About Space and Astronomy

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From books about the Big Bang to poems about planets, and everything in between, you’re sure to have a blast with these stellar reads.
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Mental Health & Well-being

Belonging Is Key to Positive Mental Health Discussions

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Students want to talk about their mental health. They just don’t always know where to turn for help.

Whole Child, Whole School: Prioritizing Student Wellness

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Imagine an elementary school where wellness isn’t just a buzzword, but a cornerstone of student success.

American Lung Association Urges Schools to Test for Radon to Protect Students and Staff

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Radon is a naturally occurring, odorless, tasteless, and colorless radioactive gas that can accumulate indoors, including in schools.

Calmer Classrooms, One Breath at a Time: How Meditation Can Transform Behavioural Health

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As we work to build classrooms that nurture both academic and emotional success, meditation serves as a simple yet powerful tool.

Helping Students Learn Through Grief

Meagan Gillmore - 0
Sometimes, adults assume children are too young to experience grief. But if you’re capable of feeling love, you’re capable of feeling loss.

Stress: Coping Techniques and How to Use Them

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Stress can be useful: it fires up our brains and bodies. But sometimes we are so overrun by physiological and emotional symptoms that we can’t focus on the problem.
Back to School

5 Things Educators Need to Know to Combat Burnout This Year

These essential mindset shifts will help you avoid common pitfalls that lead to burnout and, instead, allow you to thrive as a highly effective educator.

Learning Styles

Complex Learning Environments: The ESL Challenge

For K–12 teachers of English as a Second Language, the shifting nature of the ESL population is creating a new set of classroom challenges.

Encouraging Creativity in Lesson Plans

It can be incredibly easy to treat lesson planning like a checklist. Objective: check. Standards: check. Activity: check. Education experts say there is a better way.

Unicycles: A Lesson for Learning Complex Skills

Can unicycles serve an important educational purpose? Are there good pedagogical reasons for learning to ride them?

Why Boys Aren’t Learning

The concept that boys and girls learn differently is not new. Many researchers say boys face an upward struggle from primary school on.

Better Serving Introverts in the Classroom

As curriculums move away from an emphasis on content to skills, the time is right to use that move as an opportunity to better serve introverts in school.

How Technology Improved Student Achievement in My Art Class

Disciplinary problems were high, student achievement was low, and so was my patience. I knew I couldn’t do this again the following year, so I decided to change my approach.

Different Learning Styles: Allowing Children to “Unmold”

When trying to instil values, kids are like modelling clay, but when analyzing the way they learn, there is an urgency to allow kids to unmold.

Escape Rooms: Unlocking Learning for Every Child

Escape rooms are multidisciplinary and purposefully designed with variety in mind. They require diverse thinking and allow multiple learning styles to thrive simultaneously.

No Brainer: Using AI in the Classroom

Many AI products impact and improve our daily lives. These AI technologies and products may be beneficial to the teachers in the classroom.

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Field Trips

7 Immersive Art Adventures for Kids

Nupur Bagoria -
Art education works best when it’s interactive, engaging, and yes, even a little messy.
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Learning with LEGO: 6 Build-and-Play Field Trips for Students

Rae Sarathy -
It’s all about LEGOs! Yes, these little plastic bricks have transcended from a humble childhood toy box staple to a popular and sophisticated educational tool.
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Treat Yourself to These 5 Tasty Chocolate Factory Tours

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Chocolate factory tours offer unique—and delicious—ways to learn about the process of making chocolate and the origins of cacao beans.
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Classroom Perspectives

The Power of Music and Melody: Using Songs to Engage Young Learners

By harnessing the power of music, teachers can create a lively and dynamic atmosphere that also improves concentration, focus, and retention.

Why the Ukulele Belongs in the Classroom: Engaging Students with Music

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Making music with a ukulele is a great group learning experience. Ukuleles are a good size and price, and they contain levels of complexity.

5 Music Apps for Kids

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Music is a meaningful component of children’s development. Here are a few apps that can help incorporate more music into kids' day-to-day routines.

Marching to the Beat of Their Own Drum: The Magic of High School Bands 

Adam Stone - 0
TEACH Magazine talked to leaders at some of the top marching band schools in the U.S., to get a sense of why band matters and what it takes to run a successful program.

Rocking Out with RobenX: Enhancing Student Resilience Through Collaboration

Lynn Ouelette - 0
Thanks to a collaboration with musician and anti-bullying advocate RobenX, I discovered many strategies for reaching students in new and lasting ways.

The Beat Goes On: The Struggle to Teach Music

Alex Newman - 0
Music education leads to improved self-discipline, sense of community, and collaboration, as well as increased academic achievement in other subjects.

5 Virtual Concerts and Music Workshops to Share with Students

Kelsey McCallum - 0
These virtual concerts, workshops, and resources are great opportunities to show students all the joys and wonders that music can bring.

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